And you’ll be joining smart company: Each year some 500 newspapers — including roughly 75% of the largest 100 U.S. dailies — participate in NICS, yielding high-quality data for pay levels and compensation practices and benchmarking across the industry.

You empower your organizations with data that provides comparisons by circulation size, revenue level, geographic region, inside a multi-property group, as the newspaper industry as a whole — and many, many more actionable benchmarks.

There’s no better or more cost-effective way to make compensation and benefits decisions than NICS.

CNPA is a co-sponsoring organization of NICS. There is a small fee to participate. The deadline for participating in 2017 is next Tuesday, May 2.